How can that be called a 'Great Revolution,' of which it is recorded that before it had filled the brief orbit of a decade, it had made an end of the life or of the reputation of every single man conspicuous in initiating or promoting it?
The importance of the octroi at this time in the financial system of France is one of the most conclusive and most amusing proofs of the essentially superficial and ephemeral character of the alleged 'Great Revolution' of 1789.
While Pitt was thus absent from Parliament, Grenville proposed a measure destined to produce a great revolution, the effects of which will long be felt by the whole human race.
The character of the men whose minds are formed in the midst of the confusion which follows a great revolution is generally very different.
The time was a favourable one for reviewing the silent and almost unobserved progress of a great revolution.
The results of this discovery effected a great revolution in commerce, attracted the attention of all nations, and gave a new direction to the human mind.
There are cruel epochs in a great revolution; moments of trial which too often exhibit the lofty philosopher shrinking into one of the people.
I think that Harrington presciently detected the latent causes of a great revolution in France.
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